Learn to Howl

He who goes with the wolf will learn to howl. - Anonymous

Have you ever heard the old adage ‘birds of a feather flock together’? That’s basically what this quote means. Who you spend time with influences you, whether you like it or not. To what degree they influence you is up to you, but it’s a question of what you want to do.

Do you want to spend your time fighting off the negative influences of the people around you? Their negativity, their greed, their prejudices, their violence, their whatever it is that they have that you don’t want? You have better uses for your energy – if you aren’t around them, that is.

If you remove yourself from these people, or if you remove these people from your life, then you don’t have to spend so much time and energy making sure you stay being yourself. You can spend it on other things, like becoming the best self you can be, or anything else you want to do.

Your life is too precious to bother with negative people. Unless you have perfected your “anti-negativity shield” or unless your purpose in life is to help these people or they have skills that you absolutely cannot get elsewhere, leave them be. Find someone else to share your life with. You deserve fantastic friends.